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Uperman’s shipyard ran east along the nothern part of the Midtown coast that bordered the ocean. After a good stretch the coast and shipyard turn south for a bit more before rising into sheer rock cliff, too jagged and high for any ports. Old Midtown starts where the borders of the sandy coast meet the start of the rock cliffs. Most of the coast that was sandy beach in Metropolis sits dominated by the shadows of the ports that feed Uperman’s shipyard. Nobody went to the ocean’s edge to bathe or swim or anything else. Uperman’s ports never held any local fisherman, only sailors from the north or east in for the night on older ships, but that was rare. Most of the freight ships were completely automated and didn’t need any more than two or three to the crew. Most of the time the little crew would never leave the boat but instead stayed on board in their cabin. It didn’t make any difference to Stewart who never saw any of the ships or the sailors. Stewart worked in the yard in a little corragated aluminum metal shed of a portable. A long time ago the orignal Uperman had set up a system for the shipyard that divided the whole thing into sections. Each section of the shipyard had a little portable office with the assigned personel to run it. Stewart’s Section was called the East 101, which he never understood since his section was the furthest northwest in the yard, closest to Uperman’s Adminstrative office where Uperman himself sat everyday atop the fifth floor in an office that overlooked the yard.